{"id":303852,"date":"2026-05-22T02:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:12:19","slug":"texas-casino-opening-soon-on-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303852\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas casino opening soon on reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2270700050-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">LIVINGSTON, TEXAS &#8211; FEBRUARY 2: A sign signifying the entrance to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Reservation in Livingston, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (Brett Coomer\/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LEGGETT, Texas &#8211; A new casino is opening this summer on a reservation in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A temporary location will open soon, followed by a groundbreaking ceremony in June for the permanent casino, the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas recently announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Texas casino  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe is scheduled to open its new temporary casino facility this summer on its tribal land in Leggett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">They said in their press release that the casino will be open 24 hours a day, offering 300 electronic bingo machines, a 24-hour deli, a fountain drink station, a player\u2019s club, and approximately 300 parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Naskila Casino Resort facility, which will be located across from this temporary location, is scheduled for June 18.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Naskila Casino offers Class II bingo machines, smoking and non-smoking gaming areas, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;This temporary facility will provide a positive economic impact for Polk County, surrounding communities and for the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe. The temporary casino will create 110 new jobs, strengthen local partnership, and establish a foundation for long-term tourism growth&#8221; stated Chairman Ricky Sylestine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LIVINGSTON, TEXAS &#8211; FEBRUARY 2: A sign signifying the entrance to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Reservation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-303852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}